[PATCH 3/4] powerpc/booke64: Use appropriate -mcpu

Scott Wood scottwood at freescale.com
Fri Aug 23 00:18:27 EST 2013


On Thu, 2013-08-22 at 15:56 +0200, Rojhalat Ibrahim wrote:
> Just out of curiosity: What's the difference (if any) between -mcpu=e500mc64 
> and -mcpu=e5500? AFAIK -mcpu=e500mc64 is supported by gcc since at least 
> version 4.6 whereas -mcpu=e5500 is only supported since gcc 4.8. But is there 
> actually any difference?

I had asked our compiler person that before sending...  the answer
wasn't very clear, but when I asked whether there was any benefit for
the kernel specifying e5500 (requiring an extra fallback check) he said
"probably not".  Eventually they'll probably just become aliases for the
same thing.  Currently they do have separate .md files though, so
they're not identical.

-Scott





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